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A. Ability.—Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.—Schopenhaufer. Words must be fitted to a man’s mouth,—’twas well said of the fellow that was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor, when he desired to take measure of his lordship’s mouth.—Selden. Absence.—Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.—Hannah More. Absence from those we love is self from self! A deadly banishment.—Shakespeare